Sources Used in the Best High Schools Rankings

It is obvious that no one at U.S. News fact checks these lists. Simple addition would have pointed out the errors in the Hana High School, Maui, Hawaii listing. Here are the glaring errors. The Hana listing says our enrollment is 350 and then lists enrollment by class. This implies 350 is our high school enrollment, but when you add up the numbers by class, you only get 82. No one bothered to check this math? Did anyone at U.S. News read these? Our K-12 enrollment is 350. Next it shows that we have 26 teachers, which again implies teachers for just the high school but that is our entire teacher population K-12. Only 4 teachers are designated to the high school. The last big error shows we have 88% Asian enrollment and 0% Native Hawaiians. I have no idea where that figure came from but it is certainly wrong. Our enrollment is 82% Native Hawaiian! The state of Hawaii has cut our school budget 42% in the last four years. This completely inaccurate list gives policy makers the perception that our school has the resources it needs because people don't see the errors. U.S. News should be ashamed of this list and print a retraction in their next issue.

Tina Ames, School Community Council Chairman of HI 2:57PM May 21, 2012